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And, according to one report I read, we turned the Russians down when they offered to help with search and rescue in New Orleans.

The more I see of this, the more I am outraged. Our own government is too darned busy getting our young men and women ready to go into Iraq, yet we have tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of OUR OWN desperate for help.

Here is what I don't get: CNN (for example) puts Dr. Gupta in Charity Hospital in DT New Orleans to describe the squalid conditions (presumably with the ability to get extracted when his Perrier runs out)...yet nobody seems to be able to get any of the patients out. What's wrong with this picture folks?

One of the few media types I am pleased with is Anderson Cooper from CNN. I believe he is in Mississippi and he showed his own personal anger at the lack of assistance that is being provided to the people in the place where he was reporting from last evening. The visual cues and facial expressions made it clear that this was not a "staged" response, but a sincere presentation of his impressions of what is NOT being done for these people.

We can send hundred of thousands of troops to Iraq and airdrop food, water and supplies to Iraqis, but we cannot do the same for our own. Pathetic.